Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Innate resistance to hepatitis C virus infection in the Irish anti-D cohort
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2022)Even within homogenous populations, outcome following exposure to a virus can vary substantially. This continuum of infection outcome spans viral resistance, spontaneous resolution and chronic infection, with further ... -
Quantitative and Qualitive Analysis of Politeness and Gender Effects in Romantic Comedies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)This study investigates differences in markers of politeness between male and female characters in romantic comedies. While focusing on the gender of the speaker, the impact of the gender of the addressee and of the ... -
Computational Modelling and Design of Cathode Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)Unravelling the activity and selectivity of novel heterogeneous catalysts requires a deep understanding of the effects unfolding at the catalytic surface. Particularly, this thesis emphasises the relevance of dopant ... -
Networked in or networked out? Learners' experiences of completing a PhD on a part-time basis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Doctoral education policy and practice in Europe tends to recognise candidature in terms of the full-time PhD researcher. Part-time doctoral candidates have been described as invisible in policy (Neumann and Rodwell, 2009) ... -
Optimal Control Algorithms for Wave Energy Conversion
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2022)The aim of this thesis is to design control strategies with the objective of power maximization for point absorber (PA) type of wave energy converter (WEC) devices, considering non-linearities and physical limitations ... -
Exploration in Light Field processing and editing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2022)Light fields have been used in computer science research for the better part of the last three decades, and the range of applications available is ever-growing. There exist several capture methods producing output images ... -
Semi-synthetic Approaches to N-Glycosylation: A Story of Thiol-Ene Methodology, and Interferon-γ
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)The following thesis, entitled “Semi-synthetic Approaches to N-Glycosylation: A Story of Thiol-Ene Methodology, and Interferon-γ” is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the key concepts ... -
Environmental Behaviour and Decision Making - Evidence from Laboratory, Online and Natural Experiments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)Tackling climate change and keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is one of the major and most challenging issues that our societies are facing. Households are among the ... -
Electroconductive Biomaterial Platforms: from Piezoresistive Sensors to Cardiac Tissue Engineering
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2022)New classes of functional materials and the rapid advances being made in manufacturing technologies are key requirements to drive the next step forward in healthcare. In recent decades, conjugated polymers have gained ... -
Adaptive and Innate TH1 and TH17 Responses in Elderly Hospitalised Patients with Infection and Sepsis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2021)Introduction: Sepsis carries a significant burden to health care. Almost a third of ICU patients have sepsis on admission or develop it during their admission. Sepsis carries a high mortality and affects all age groups ... -
Exploitation of Decorative Stone in Victorian Ireland: From Quarry to Building
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2022)Ireland contains a diverse range of rock types that are characterised as igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic in origin, which have been widely utilised for building, and to a lesser extent decorative, purposes over the ... -
Connections between Internal and Surface properties of Massive Stars
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)Massive stars have an important impact on the universe. They are responsible for the generation of many of the chemical elements such as oxygen and silicon. They can produce core collapse supernovae which impact the chemical ... -
Heart Rate Recovery Velocity in Cardiac Disease
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Introduction Rate of recovery of heart rate between 10 and 20 seconds following orthostatic challenge (HRR10-20) is a risk factor for all-cause mortality. Furthermore, both cardiac rehabilitation and completeness of coronary ... -
A Study of Teacher Engagement with Junior Cycle: Have You Asked the Teacher?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)he Irish education system has been undergoing significant reform since the introduction of the Framework for Junior Cycle 2015. The programme of reforms was begun in the lower second level serving 12 to 15-year-olds. The ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics: Representation and Weighting of Numerical Information
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)This thesis consists of four essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) present experimental tests of how numerical information is represented in the brain, and the implications of this representation for economic ... -
`NEGOTIATING SELF-WORTH' IN THE CONTEXT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Background: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic condition with an auto-immune pathology which may present at any age. Since its recognition in the mid-nineteenth century medical science has been at the forefront of ... -
Making Capital Markets Work For Africa: Interrogating Progress, Challenges and the Pursuit Of Integration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2022)The work which follows examines the foundation, state, and practice of stock market integration projects in Africa which are fronted as a solution to making capital markets work for Africa. There is a consensus that African ... -
Antimicrobial formulation and functionalization of photosensitizers for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)To provide a long-lasting solution to infections affecting the current world scenario, antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) offers a non-invasive means to destroy pathogenic microbes via formation of reactive oxygen ... -
Examination of the organocatalysed reactions between azides and cyclic anhydrides
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)Azide is encountered in organic synthesis as both a functional group and as and an ion, and provides a valuable means of incorporating nitrogen into target compounds. The intrinsic nucleophilicity of azides can be beneficial, ... -
A study of bioenergetics and mitochondrial function in Cytotoxic T cell subsets
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2022)CD8 T cell fate and function have been linked to specific metabolic programs. T effector (T eff) and T memory (T mem) cells engage mitochondrial metabolism to different extents, as recognised by stark differences in ...
